Don't know fore sure if these .wh. are of use for anything . The kernel driver " aufs " is configurable to show them or not . I also configured mine to show them, would be a TODO if i configure a kernel not to show them , how that behaves .. running mainly full , so no need for aufs for me ..

If there is a .wh. file for a file, writing to the normal file might not work anymore . The file gets corrupted . I experienced that with the important configuration file /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE .

I wanted to have a backup of PUPSTATE and made a line mv PUPSTATE PUPSTATE.prev in rc.shutdown, which created that .wh.PUPSTATE file . Next boot appeared to work normal, but /init of initrd.gz writes to PUPSTATE every time and that seemed to corrupt the file . cat and source on it would not work : I/O Error . fsck could not handle it . Had to umount the PUPSAVE-FILE.2fs and delete the .wh. file and comment my line in rc.shutdown .

Probably this is caused because i put my line in after umounting -r pupsave-file layer, but i am not sure about this .

If you don't need the driver displaylink_drv.so and flash works for you or you even like to have flasplayer.so blocked and don't need to read or write to /etc/windowmanager.openbox .............

udevd , the kernel and probably the modules deleted the sound device nodes while alsaconf rmmod 'ed the modules . The modules when loaded create the device nodes new, supported by udevd and rules in /etc/udev or /lib/udev to create the wanted permissions and ownerships like root:audio .

Interesting... Almost seems like a bug. But I`m sure it`s standard procedure.

I`ve had the sound die on other Puppies, but maybe for different reasons.
I think this is very common for the 5xx series, I`ve seen lots of posts on it.

Perhaps make a fix script to automate what I did? And a menu button for it.

# I made a few stand-alone pkgs. by different methods. Working on tools now.

# I`m really excited about the Audacious music player pkg.
I made it entirely from Ubuntu Lucid binary files, and I modified the exec. files.
Seems to work well, as my methods get more refined I`ll post some SqApp files.

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